Here’s the punchline to last week’s featured cartoon PINK AND BLUE BLUES. Some observant viewers may have noticed that in the cartoon Magoo wears a fez. It is the only theatrical short in which Magoo ever wore one, and there’s a reason for that. Below is a letter from Columbia Pictures brass explaining to UPA why their short, PINK AND BLUE BLUES, was banned in Egypt in 1953. Click on the letter to make it legible.
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